(April 19, 2010 at 9:46 pm)Saerules Wrote: Hmmm... just what do you lot feel about growing old, or being old?
Is it largely positive? Largely negative? Rather neutral? Why do you think so?
Youth is totally wasted on the young.
As I have accumulated decades on this rock I have come to the above conclusion.
Age has it's benefits (see "Grumpy Old Women") you can seriously kick but.
Age has it's drawbacks, e.g. Just when you get the time an money to go do an adventure sport, your body gives out, hormones go on a permanent sabatical, and you find that all that fresh DDT, Asbestos, Diesal, etc you were exposed to as a kid has horrendous consequences as you age.
Looking around today...I definitely DON'T want to live forever. 80 will do just nicely thankyou. Don't want to hang around watching a bunch off whinging, whining halfwits appologising for the fact that life is not the safe bowl of berries they thought / or was told it was.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
